Career Highlights

2024* Finalist– Plein Air Salon – November 2024 – Best Animals & Birds
* Distinction – Gallery 4% “Living and Breathing 4” Juried International Online Competition, USA
* Winner – Frank Mills Award (tied) Ocean Shores Art Expo
* Winner – “Printmaking, Drawing & Pastel Section” Ocean Shores Art Expo
* Winner –Pastel Society of Australia – Bi-Annual Set Subject “Tones”
* People’s Choice – Queensland Wildlife Artists Society
* Winner – Works on Paper – Coraki Art Prize
* Grand Champion – TURSA North Coast National Show (Lismore)
* First Place – Domestic Animals & Wildlife Section – Tursa Art Prize
* First Place – Landscape Section – Tursa Art Prize
* Highly Commended – Country Life section – TURSA Art Prize
* Honorable Mention – 26th Artists Network Annual Pastel 100 Competition Online International Competition, “Animal & Wildlife”
* Finalist – Holmes Acquisitive Art Prize for Excellence in Realistic Birdlife Art Prize
* Special Merit – Art and Colour 365 – Drawing 2024
* 3rd Place – The Brisbane EKKA “Flora and Fauna”
* 3rd Place – The Brisbane EKKA “Pastel Section”
* Honorable Mention – Teravarna “Water”, USA, International Competition
* 3rd Place – Pastel Society of Southern California “Make Your Mark”
* Bronze Award – Camelback Gallery, USA, International Competition – “Black & White 12 Competition”
* Honourable Mention- Teravarna 9th Annual Animal Awards
* Bronze Award – Camelback Gallery, USA, International Competition – “Amazing Animals”
* Special Merit – Art and Colour 365 – Animals 2024
* Second Place – Gallery 4% Living & Breathing 3
* Finalist – Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize
* Winner – Plein Air Salon – January 2024 Best Animals & Birds
* Talent Prize -Teravarna “10th Animals”, International Online Competition, USA
* Finalist – Richeson 75 International Animal, Birds & Wildlife Exhibition
* Finalists – Southeastern Pastel Society “Luminosity”, International Online Competition, USA
2023* Winner Casino RSM Acquisition Prize – Bentley Art Prize.
* Runner-Up (by 3 votes) People’s Choice- Bentley Art Prize.
* Bronze Award – Camelback Gallery, USA, International Juried Painting Competition – “Animals”
* Finalist – Make Your Mark ONLINE International Juried Exhibition of Pastel Paintings. North Carolina, USA.
* Finalist – Darcy Doyle Art Award.
* Finalist – Camelback Gallery, USA, International Juried Painting Competition – “Faces”
* Distinction – Gallery 4% “Anything & Everything” Juried Art Contest
* Runner-Up Best in Show – Queensland Wildlife Artists Society
* People’s Choice – Tursa Art Prize
* First Place – Domestic Animals & Wildlife Section – Tursa Art Prize
* First Place – Portraiture Section – Tursa Art Prize
* Honourable Mention – Animal & Wildlife category PLUS One of Five Artists “To Watch” – 25th Annual Pastel 100 Competition – Artists Network, International Competition.
* Finalist – Southeastern Pastel Society ONLINE “Luminosity” International Juried Exhibition of Pastel Paintings. South Carolina, USA
* Finalist – Pure Color ONLINE International Juried Exhibition of Pastel Paintings. North Carolina, USA
* Third Place – Brisbane EKKA ‘Seascapes’
2022* Honourable Mention – Pastel Guild of Europe 2022, “Dust Off”.
* Bronze Award – Camelback Gallery, USA, International Juried Painting Competition – “Realism”
* Finalist – Pure Color 6th Annual ONLINE International Juried Exhibition of Pastel Paintings. North Carolina, USA.
* People’s Choice – Lower Clarence Arts & Crafts Association.
* Highly Commended – Lower Clarence Arts & Crafts Association.
2021* Finalist WAMA Art Prize (Where Art Meets Nature).
* Highly Commended – Pastel Society of Australia Annual Awards.
2020* People’s Choice – Pastel Society of Australia Annual Awards.
2019* 1st Place – Pastel/Drawing Section & overall People’s Choice – Ocean Shores Art Comp.
* Highly Commended – Lions Art Extravaganza – Pastel/Drawing section.
* Finalist in the Holmes Acquisitive Art Prize for Excellence in Realistic Birdlife Art Prize.
* Finalist in the Dean Cogle Portrait Prize.
2018* People’s Choice – BACCI Spring Exhibition.
* People’s Choice – Pastel Society of Australia Annual Awards.
2017* Finalist in the Holmes Acquisitive Art Prize for Excellence in Realistic Birdlife Art Prize.
* Solo Exhibition “Avian Criminals and Other Fine Feathered Friends” – Northern Rivers Community Gallery, Ballina.
* Exhibition “Micro Heroes” – Art Aspects Gallery, Lismore & Nimbin Gallery.
2016* Selected Artist in Caldera Art Exhibition.
* Highly Comm. Casino RSM Acquisition Prize – Bentley Art Prize.
2015* Selected Artist in Caldera Art Exhibition.
* Winner Town & Gown Exhibition -Lions Club of Lennox Head.
2013* Winner Casino RSM Acquisition Prize – Bentley Art Prize.
* Runner-up Drawing Prize – Bentley Art Prize.
2011* Encouragement Award – Bentley Art Prize.
2008* Special Mention Merit Certificate Award – Wetland Care National Art Competition.
2007* Encouragement Award – Southern Cross Art Show.
2006* People’s Choice Award – Southern Cross Art Show.